Patients hit hard as doctors abandon Doti hospital
DHANGADHI: The patients in Doti have been deprived of treatment since doctors abandoned the District Hospital on February 21, citing security reasons.
The patients are compelled to visit health institutions in other districts, which proves expensive. Meanwhile, the health assistants, auxiliary health workers (AHWs), and auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs) in the District Hospital and Primary Health Centre are managing the work load, according to Chief at the Doti District Public Health Office, Satish Bista.
It is the irresponsibility of the doctors not returning to the hospital even after the guilty being brought under law, said Nandu Dhami, a local resident of Gairagaun, and added that it was not right to abandon the hospital citing mistakes committed by one person. He said that many patients were unable to consult doctors in other health institutions due to their financial limitations.
Lawmaker Purna Joshi, representing Province 7, drew the parliamentarians' attention toward the doctors abandoning the hospital. Similarly, Chief District Officer Surya Bahadur Khatri accused the doctors of inconveniencing the patients by not returning to their duties even when action has been taken against the guilty.
Three doctors left the hospital after the recent thrashing of their colleague on February 18.
A relative of a woman had assaulted Dr Jitendra Singh, accusing him of misbehaving with the woman while taking video x-ray. Dr Singh’s teeth were broken in the attack. Thus, Dr Singh and his colleagues Dr Bibash Parajuli and Dr Raj Kumar Bishwokarma had gone to Dhangadhi, citing hostile work environment in Doti.
Doctors working at the government hospital left the district after Nepal Doctors’ Association and Association of Government Doctors jointly issued a statement asking doctors in private and government health facilities to leave the district.
District Police Office, Doti, has filed a public offence case against four persons involved in the thrashing and has launched an investigation. “We’ve detained Hikmat Singh Bista, Bijaya Bista, Tek Bahadur Bista and Arun Mahat of Dipayal Silgadhi Municipality in connection with the incident, so the doctors leaving the hospital citing security reasons is baseless,” said DSP Shiva Bahadur Singh.
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